Rex Tillerson

Rex W. Tillerson is ExxonMobil's Chairman, CEO and President. He made $22.4 million in 2009.

Ties to American Legislative Exchange Council
Exxon Mobil is a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and a representative sits on the Corporate ("Private Enterprise") Board.

Background
In December 1999, Tillerson became Executive Vice President of ExxonMobil Development Company. [He] was named Senior Vice President of Exxon Mobil Corporation in August 2001, and was elected President of the Corporation and member of the board of directors on March 1, 2004. He assumed his current position January 1, 2006. He is a member of the Executive Committee and is a former Chairman of the American Petroleum Institute, an industry group representing corporate 400 members involved in all aspects of the oil natural gas industry. He is also a trustee of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington, D.C., think tank founded during the cold war that focuses on issues related to U.S. defense policy and international security.

Other Affilations

 * Member of the National Petroleum Council, a federally chartered and privately funded advisory committee that was established by the Secretary of the Interior in 1946 at the request of President Harry S. Truman, which functions now under the U.S. Department of Energy as a Oil and Natural Gas Advisory Committee to the Secretary of Energy;


 * Member of the Business Roundtable, "an association of chief executive officers of leading U.S. companies with nearly $6 trillion in annual revenues and more than 13 million employees;"


 * Honorary Trustee of the Business Council for International Understanding, a membership organization of more than 150 multinational corporations that provides opportunities for "senior business executives to interact with heads of state/government, cabinet ministers, and senior government officials;"


 * Member of the Emergency Committee for American Trade, a membership organization of American "manufacturing, financial, processing, merchandising, and publishing" corporations whose "combined exports run into the tens of billions of dollars" and whose "annual worldwide sales exceed $1.5 trillion," that actively supports "legislative and other measures that facilitate U.S. trade and investment" and opposes "changes in U.S. trade and tax law that unfairly penalize their competitiveness in world markets. ECAT members support the continued expansion of the multilateral trading system to provide new opportunities for farmers, manufacturers, and service providers, and to improve compliance with agreements to protect intellectual property rights. They also encourage business people overseas to support policies that assure fairer treatment of American goods in foreign markets and to oppose restrictions on U.S. companies."